Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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THE AMPTENNIAN I Foreword TO PRODUCE an Amptennian, uncqualcd and unparalleled, has been the aim of the staff. Into the book we have pul ourselves our likes, dislikes, hopes, joys. aims, and sorrows. We have tried to make it real -With the true flavor of the class of '25. We have done our best and you. reader, as the judge, shall formulate your own opinion, but to us it is almost a living thing—alive with the activities of the days in N. H. S. and we shall ever treasure it. We have worked With the co-operation of all and no one has Worked for special recognition. All that was desired was a book worthy to become the everlasting monument of the class of 25. With this we present the book to you and ask that you do not criticise us too harshly but congratulate us and praise us. It is up to you to decide whether we have accomplished our aim or not. The Staff UUlPUlBMiJlJUH Northampton High School

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jjlfUUlMfUlMflU the amptennian wmaUBHMmaum 1 f) 2 cl A Message from Your Superintendent EDUCATIONAL opportunities and ideals of the present day differ widely —4 from those commonly held a generation or two ago. We pride ourselves in our higher standards, our rapid progress in making the training in our schools more and more practical. These practical elements of our educational system have met with an increasing approval from the materialistic world. Even in the publication of this year book our boys and girls are striving to put into a very practical form the evidence of their training, and to leave a permanent record of their achievements during four years of high school work. But however magnificent this volume may appear, the real influence of high school training cannot be set down in full on these pages. The real business of education has been and always should remain the process of developing and strengthening the character of the individual citizen. Our public schools were established to safeguard the ideals, ethical standards, and staunch moral purposes which characterized the founders of our republic. To train young people to become intelligent, dependable citizens in a democracy is vitally more important than proclaiming to the world the splendor and magnitude of intellectual attainment which a modern high school gives to its graduates. m 1 9 2 5 To the members of the class of 1925 who have prepared and published this issue of the Amptennian as one of the means whereby they may show evidence of keen minds, better trained, and much better supplied with knowledge, we would express the hope that the training they have received will find further expression in upholding and stimulating only the best in the life and thought of the community. Much will be expected of them as they are entering the broad fields of endeavor outside the school to put their training to the test in the full vigor and strength of their youth. Rich prizes wait for those who do not waver: The world needs men to battle for the truth. It calls each hour for stronger hearts and braver. This is the age for those who still have youth.” S. C. Frankenfield, Superintendent Northampton High School [1